non-indigenous

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Well I remember the latter days of Stalinism, and the denunciations that flowed against citizens of the world like myself, unbridled, evil-minded cosmopolitans, profiteers with no roots and no conscience … Grown on rotten yeast of bourgeois cosmopolitanism, decadence and formalism … non-indigenous nationals without a motherland, who poison with stench … our proletarian culture.

As for preventing such violence in the future, Guttschuss says Human Rights Watch has traced past incidents of communal violence to state- and local-government policies that discriminate against non-indigenous residents and exacerbate existing communal tensions.

The bane of Afghan existence for the past 30 years has been the meddling of foreign powers that have imposed non-indigenous ideological and religious doctrines beginning with the U.S. and Soviets using Afghanistan as a Cold War chessboard in the 1970s.

On Wednesday in Fairbanks, Alaska, organizers of the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics will mark the event's 50th anniversary by reviving four vintage games and allowing non-indigenous contestants to participate.

In collaboration with local artists and educators in Kumasi, Ghana, Mary helped create a local hand-made papermaking initiative that creates an income-generating product and protects the environment and local community by putting to use a non-indigenous, invasive plant that has been damaging farms as the paper source rather than using native trees.

However, without the same degree of historical and cultural ties to localities and ways of life, and with greater freedom to relocate, perhaps to an area outside the Arctic, non-indigenous residents will be vulnerable to likely future change in the Arctic in different ways.